His Ebay name is soulside_journey. TOTAL RIP OFF! He will ask you to end your auction and pay directly through Pay Pal. Then he LIES and says he never got the item. England does not require proof of delivery. He is a SCAMMER! I am out a RARE LP AND $230. AVOID this scumbag!!! His name in this site is Throne_of_Ahaz.

"Did not send item. Claimed item delivered with no tracking info at all... AVOID!""Refunded when asked when item delayed. Many thanks""2 missing, 2 damaged, replacements sent straight away. Always good service""Item not received, then called ME the rip-off!!! AVOID at all costs!!!""Item 'lost' in post. Refund took a while.""Nothing received, quite decent but fought to not give refund. No proof of postag""Never got! Marked as sent 2 different times, 2 weeks apart. No replies, AVOID!!!""Needed for my cat but never received. Refund quick and painless though.""Never turned up, seller issued a refund. Helpful and kind, recommended.""Seller gave full refund, and a replacement. Thanks."

Etc.

And that's just the most recent 200 feedbacks left. If the buyer isn't a scammer then the UK post has terrible service losing that many packages.And he might be a legit seller but its so easy to scam sellers with paypal nowadays, I've had it happen a few times to me also with other buyers that had perfect feedback as sellers.

This is when I sell something I always check the feedback the buyer left for others first, if they complain for refunds too much I just relist the item and block the buyer.

Additionally, I'd like to post just for the record, mostly for the onlookers of this debacle. Here are the facts, for posterity:- MikaelBayusik posted an expensive LP on eBay.- Throne_of_Ahaz (soulside_journey on eBay) offered to buy the LP off eBay and pay via Paypal directly. MikaelBayusik agreed.- MikaelBayusik sent the LP to Throne_of_Ahaz after being paid by Paypal. He did not use registered mail or insurance. He mailed this close to, or during, the holiday season.- Throne_of_Ahaz claims he did not receive the LP and filed a claim on Paypal.- Without proof of delivery, Throne_of_Ahaz won the Paypal claim and got refunded. [Edit: he told me the case is "still pending", but Mikael said he was "out $230", so the status is uncertain.]- MikaelBayusik sent threats (admitted to here) to Throne_of_Ahaz via eBay. Throne_of_Ahaz claims (as told to me in PM) they were death threats. - Due to the threats, eBay banned MikaelBayusik for violating their terms of service.- MikaelBayusik posted the incident on this forum, but was dismissed a little too hastily by a moderator, who locked his thread. I want to stress this, the moderators here should not take sides in trading disputes, especially if both traders have accounts here. (The moderator in question has since apologized and admitted he was too hasty in dismissing Mikael's complaint, by the way.)- Throne_of_Ahaz reported the post (politely) and requested we remove his address from being posted. The aforementioned moderator did.- MikaelBayusik started to throw tantrums, flooding this forum with several threads where he just yelled at pretty much everybody, and also coming in the chatroom and verbally abusing random chat users who had nothing to do with this story at all. He also flooded the chatroom with "FUCK YOU" and other insults for no apparent reason until he got banned from the chat. - He was also banned from the forum shortly after. One of his posts was edited by me for being particularly vulgar and hysterical. - He then threw more tantrums on Facebook, insulting Metal-Archives and myself.

Now, those are the facts that I have. I don't know if Throne_of_Ahaz scammed Mikael or not or if it was just bad postal luck. And I don't care to know, because I'm not the police of trading. In fact, I will say no more about this particular dispute.

What I will say, however, is this important reminder for everyone here: if people have a dispute with another trader, they can share their stories and warn others here, sure, and they can defend themselves from allegations if they want, too... but they must do so in a calm, civil and adult manner. I understand it's frustrating to think you are being scammed, but come on. I have not been scammed, but I been the victim of theft myself, and yes tempers flare. But I handled my thieving situation by keeping cool and being a responsible adult. That allowed me to catch the thief, and when he was caught, I didn't beat him bloody with a baseball bat, I called the police and let them handle it. Does anyone here think that you will get people on your side by admitting to having sent death threats and flooding a chatroom with FUCK YOU to random passers-by? I mean... really?

In other words: victim of a scam or not, you must still follow the rules of this site and not act like a complete dick.

All that said... I apologize for the long post, and please carry on.

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Markeri, in 2013 wrote:

you can debate the actual date that metal began, but a fairly agreed upon date is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old

Extreme_violence wrote:

Why Iron maiden is there? It's very far to be metal than a lot of some metal band.

He pays for records with eCheck then after the check clears and the item has shipped, he tells the bank it was an unauthorized transaction. The bank gets the money back from PayPal and the seller hopefully has tracking info so they can get the money in their account back. If not, you're fucked and this guy is laughing as he plays your prized vinyl.

Awful transaction with Stender.The CDs were supposed to be sent registered, but I never had a tracking number and they never arrived.It ended with a paypal claim.

EDIT:Stender is not a rip off : the CDs finally showed up in the mail today, 64 days after my paypal payment!Either US postal services or french ones did seriously fucked up the shipping...It seems I need to make a new paypal, now.

I put this in dreadmeat's thread but I'll put it here to for those too lazy to look it up. He was a great seller, my order came in early (a big feat considering it went from new Zealand to Chicago in 6 days), it was in mint condition, and he saved me money on shipping. Also he tracked down a fairly hard to find album for a reasonable price I'll definitely do business with him again. Lastly he had great communication always responded to my PMs promptly and informed me every step of the way and took pictures.

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Under_Starmere wrote:

Couldn't Untappd also be an excellent name for an app that helps virgins locate virgins? Sort of like Grindr for the celibate? This has to have confused tons of people by now.

Is there someone who knows a guy named Mike Aldwin Morgenstein ( Mike Morbid ) ?This guy offered me one month ago to sell me his copy of Benighted In Sodom A Premonition Of Miracles Undone and shoot him an offer.I accepted and he asked me to pay 10 euros more for registered mail.I paid by Paypal.3 weeks after that I asked for the tracking number because I didn't received anything.He told me that he wasn't at home but as soon as he can he's gonna send me the tracking number.One month later still no CD and still no tracking number.Hopefully I paid by Paypal, so an issue is possible but I just wanted to know if someone already dealt with this guy beforeto know if usually he's reliable or not ?